Installing tvheadend on Linux Mint 17 Rebecca

yoona deguzman

I cannot seem to install tvheadend on Linux Mint 17 Rebecca.

sudo apt-add-repository -r http://ppa.launchpad.net/adamsutton/tvheadend [sudo] password for yoonashi:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/apt-add-repository", line 91, in <module>
sp = SoftwareProperties(options=options)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 109, ininit__
self.reload_sourceslist()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 599, in reload_sourceslist
self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 89, in get_sources
(self.id, self.codename))

aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException:Error: could not find a distribution template for LinuxMint/rebecca

ProfYaffle

Rebecca seems to be based on Ubuntu 14.04, so you can almost certainly add Trusty to your /etc/apt/sources.list file or add a new one to /etc/apt/sources.list.d.

Not sure why it's not picked up automatically, though - I'd expect Mint to give a 'hint' in some way to tell apt what PPAs are compatible.

EDIT

More over here: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=209480

I also found the same error referenced in the context of Qiana, so it's not a new issue. Looks like Mint have a problem with their packaging.